Charlotte Observer hires economic growth and development reporter

Danielle Chemtob

The Charlotte Observer has hired Danielle Chemtob to cover economic growth and development.

She will start in January. Chemtob replaces Ely Portillo, who has moved over to the local government and politics beat.

Chemtob will graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill in December with a degree in journalism.

She interned this past summer at The Wall Street Journal and in 2017 at the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh. She won the student Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business contest this past year for a story she wrote for the Business Journal.

Chemtob has been the investigations editor for The Daily Tar Heel this semester.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.